The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-07-01
AcrER aRAvITATEs TOWARDS IT'S
OWN KIND AND REWARD.

eIofrcu nell 10 leAus ~ WIS oh'y
case OF character tending towards
vits own sort and reward aud when
prominent anti quits the church that
he may be untrammcled In his oppo-
sition to prohibition and in his advo-
cacy, indirect. If not direct, OF all the
denominations of the whisky traffic.
why. what is it but an instance of the
Same kind? He paid high compli-
ment to his church; but how he is to
be pitied! To prefer the bar-room TO
the altar That seems TO be his choice
Alas for him! And he was once in
favor of prohibition Now, however
lie seems to have cast in his lot with
hose who spell spray" with al G, and
and who practice that sort of preying.
SOME REPROACHEs ARE PRAISES.
TO denounce ministers of the gos-
pei, professional Christians and the
church itself because of their opposi-
ton TO the whisky traffic is really to
praise them and so all decent people
will decide. The church is always for
decency, law and order; and, there
fore, 1t is against the saloons and their
advocating judges and preachers.
RARE JUDGES AND PREAcHERs!
In Bailey's Fes!us we read of the
devil who, in sheer mockery, took the
pulpit and denounced the sins of the
people! But Texas presents n much
stranger sight, if all accounts be
true; for we hear of judges and
preachers who are openly advocating
in their role of Office, so to speak, the
cause of crime and sin And they
quote the bible Do they favor poly
gamy too? Surely Texas ought to
have been spared the spectacle Of see
ing her judges and preachers advocat-
ing the whisky traffic !! We expect
purity OH the bench and in the pulpit.
The exceptions we are thankful, are
very rare.
PROHIBITION IMPRACTICABLE.
That is just what the ants say and
that simply means that the ants will
not submit to prohibition, Will the
antis please point out a single advance
step in morals or religion, in law or
government, in art or science, that
was not denounced by its oppose as
"impracticable ?"
The christian religion was imprac.
ticable and fanatical, according to its
enemies; so was the republican gov
eminent, transatlantic navigation,
railroads, steam navigation, the saw
mill, manufactures of every kind, the
telegraph, the press and everything
else that has benefited mankind. And
so, cry the enemies, arc Sunday laws
and prohibitory laws to-day. Hasn't
the world yet learned that the oppos-
ers of reforms and improvements arc
the cranks and fanatics, the fools and
knavcs, and not the proposers of such
great benefits ?
DON QUIXoTE AND MRS. PARTINGToN.
Cervantcs represents his hero as not i
only meditating, but actually making
an attack upon that most useful insti-
tuition, windmill really changing,
lance in rest. and doing battle against
the revolving arms! The poor Sir
Knight was, of course, endorsed and
terribly Battered, as the loony deserved
TO DO.
In Texas we have modern Sir O.,
around on his "Rosinante
or is it the "Travis mule "?-and
doing battle against Modern Progress
and Reform Does be suppose that
his puny antics can stay the tide, can ,
turn it back? Surely it must be
Mrs. Darlington in breeches, repeating
against temperance and progress, her
lannon's and daring exploit against the
Atlantic ocean! The orators screami-
ness oftone, epiihetic style, non sequit-
ur logic and back.action arguments, :
HI give point to the suspicion. Some
vigilant officer Of the law ought to
look into the matter and stop such
masquerading. This is Texas, not T,
New England; we don't believe, down